by Swami Radhanandaji

Some form their religion (dharma) arbitrarily and artificially. They advance complex speculations and imagine that good results are attainable only by their theories (Gita 2:42-44 and 9:20-21). Yet the Truth is but one. True happiness can be found only through right discipline and with proper discrimination.

Be not confident about any spiritual advancement as long as desire for perishable pleasures, the root cause of all miseries have not been conquered. The very extinction of evil desires aught to be the highest means of all religions to achieve Ultimate Peace. In reality, all religions teach about this goal.

The gift of spirituality exceeds all gifts -- the sweetness of spirituality exceeds all sweetness; the delight in spirituality exceeds all delights; the extinction of thirst (Gita 5:22) overcomes all pain. Very few are there (Gita 7:3) who cross the river of lust, greed and delusion and reach the goal. The great masses of ignorant worldings just run up and down the shore. There is no suffering for a man who crosses the river to reach the land - free from sorrow.

A lily blooms and radiates a captivating beauty despite its uninspired surroundings; a true disciple of Gita emerges with his/her wisdom and shines out among other people. Let us free ourselves from all ailments. Let us free ourselves from greed. And live happily ever after!

"The sun is bright by the day

The moon shines by the night

The warrior is bright in his armor (Gita 2:3)

Thinkers are bright in their meditations

But among all the brightest

With splendor, day and night is the Self-Realized, liberated soul."  

--Lord Buddha